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Warren Stupidity

(48,181 posts)
Fri Jun 6, 2014, 03:20 PM Jun 2014

Ireland mass graves: Unearthing one of the darkest chapters in Irish history


Only now is the realisation dawning that for decades the Galway earth has held the skeletons of 800 babies and toddlers in “a jumble” that is one of the country’s most unthinkable secrets.

Each new detail of what is being called the Irish Holocaust brings fresh horror. The children were the offspring of unmarried mothers who were housed in a nearby home run by nuns. Many died of malnutrition, at a mortality rate suspiciously well above the national average.
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The episode has already produced shock but worse may be to come: there were numerous similar homes throughout the country, and it is not known what kind of burial arrangements applied there.
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The Catholic church has taken a pounding from revelations of child sexual abuse by its priests and cover-ups by their bishops. But the burial site at Tuam has conjured up fresh nightmare visions and allegations of nuns behaving with disregard for life: one politician has said what happened was manslaughter.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ireland-mass-graves-unearthing-one-of-the-darkest-chapters-in-irish-history-9503897.html
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Ireland mass graves: Unearthing one of the darkest chapters in Irish history (Original Post) Warren Stupidity Jun 2014 OP
What was the state doing for the past 40 years? rug Jun 2014 #1
Well if it were me, sitting there in abject disbelief. AtheistCrusader Jun 2014 #3
I thought you usually sit in abject disbelief. rug Jun 2014 #6
It is a worthwhile question. AtheistCrusader Jun 2014 #7
Ugh, that's just so sad. trotsky Jun 2014 #2
We can all rest easy that, at the very least, they weren't aborted Heddi Jun 2014 #4
Humanity at its worst. hrmjustin Jun 2014 #5
And yet more apologetics skepticscott Jun 2014 #8
i can only guess. Warren Stupidity Jun 2014 #9
 

rug

(82,333 posts)
6. I thought you usually sit in abject disbelief.
Fri Jun 6, 2014, 08:10 PM
Jun 2014

But I was wondering how the state did nothing to investigate after the grave was discovered 39 years ago.

AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts)
7. It is a worthwhile question.
Fri Jun 6, 2014, 08:45 PM
Jun 2014

But, the way you asked it smacked of deflection, to me. Perhaps you didn't mean it that way, but that's how I read it.

trotsky

(49,533 posts)
2. Ugh, that's just so sad.
Fri Jun 6, 2014, 05:08 PM
Jun 2014
“They were allowed to die of neglect,” is the accusation from campaigner Susan Lohan. “We have anecdotal evidence from women that babies who had an obvious disability or frailty at birth were not nurtured. They were set aside in a separate room and were just allowed to pass away.”


Given how poorly the young pregnant women were treated, it should be no surprise they gave birth to frail or disabled babies. Almost as if those monsters intended it that way. But gee, that couldn't be the case!

Heddi

(18,312 posts)
4. We can all rest easy that, at the very least, they weren't aborted
Fri Jun 6, 2014, 06:58 PM
Jun 2014

because that would be a real sin, and a cause of real outrage from the church. But dead babies buried in a water tank, allowed to starve and suffer and die without a bit of decency? Who gives a fuck, and secondly, why are you trying to detract from the issue at hand, which is something that has nothing to do with religion I'm sure.

 

skepticscott

(13,029 posts)
8. And yet more apologetics
Fri Jun 6, 2014, 10:02 PM
Jun 2014

From the side of this room that none of the religionists wants to open their eyes to, or acknowledge.

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